How to Use interpreter in a Sentence

interpreter

noun
  • He has now learned English well enough that he can conduct interviews without an interpreter.
  • Monet is generally regarded as the foremost interpreter of pure impressionism.
  • The pope reached for the hand of the interpreter next to him.
    Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The goal is to be the vessel for the designer, or the interpreter of their vision.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • An acute lack of interpreters continues to plague the case.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • Masud asked through an interpreter to have his own counsel for the case that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
    Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2022
  • What to know about the Shohei Ohtani interpreter gambling scandal.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • His 16-year-old son sat next to him, missing school to serve as his father’s interpreter.
    Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Kagame said through an interpreter during a video call.
    Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Many of Allawi’s fellow interpreters had chosen to leave Iraq for the US as part of a special visa program.
    Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Harris has spent most of her 55-year career as a song interpreter.
    Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Woodard plays for the club and a portion of the grant was used to support him with an ASL interpreter and special hockey equipment.
    Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Hall rose to ask a manager about the interpreter’s whereabouts.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Vidic mostly answered yes or no to Greenberg’s questions, with the use of an interpreter.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Hours before her interview to be a tourist interpreter, Sejin heads to the weary sea to save her father.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • As clips of the nominees’ performances were shown, the interpreter read out Mulligan’s name to cheers and whoops.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The artist tried to keep himself up, nearly pulling the American Sign Language interpreter down with him.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • Smith, a charismatic performer and skilled interpreter of lyrics, has often seemed a bit boxed in by the sad-singer ideal.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And then the interpreter somehow gets total access to your bank account?
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But here, just steps from her apartment, she is greeted by Mandarin interpreter Jay Liang, who sometimes rides along in the van.
    Anika Nayak, STAT, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Her mother, Ah Yane, also farmed and sometimes worked as a court interpreter.
    Nina Chhita, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, the northwest campus has signs and interpreters for the Marshallese language.
    Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Allawi says that insurgents tied one of his friends, also an interpreter, to the back of a car and dragged him around the neighborhood until his limbs tore apart.
    Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Raitt, 73, has long been renowned as a finder and interpreter of songs, but most of her albums have also included a few of her own.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Python code uses an interpreter to translate the code into machine code line by line as the program runs.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The story of a soldier and an interpreter who saves his life looks surprisingly . . .
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Gonzalez was walking to his job as a polling place interpreter.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024
  • And the effect is much more dramatic than the usual TV news practice of having an unseen interpreter speak over the footage.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Through a Russian interpreter, Svidenko entered not guilty pleas to the charges.
    oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Three hundred Afghan interpreters have been killed since 2001, and there are a thousand more awaiting visas to come to America.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023

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